Understanding Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Pediatric Care
Imagine you have a new 13-year-old patient in your practice. When you perform a return-to-school physical examination, you notice healed linear cutting marks on both of their wrists. The remainder of ...
8 Aug 202324min
Women in Medicine: The Gendered Divide in Finding Work-Life Balance (S6:E48)
The important but ever-elusive goal of work-life balance is still more out of reach for women than men. Studies of home workloads for physicians indicate that the bulk of the nonprofessional work at h...
1 Aug 202330min
The Gut-Brain Axis: Understanding the Microbiome (S6:E47)
The gut microbiome is a fascinating area of human health that we just started to better understand in the last two decades. With the arrival of PCR sequencing and advanced PCR techniques, we've been a...
25 Jul 202325min
Youth Suicide Prevention & Research (S6:E46)
One of the most concerning trends in child health is the increase in suicide rates over the last two decades in the United States. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in teenagers and young a...
18 Jul 202335min
Craniosynostosis and Development with Brooke French, MD and Allyson Alexander, MD (Rebroadcast S6:E4)
It is not uncommon for newborn babies to have slight imperfections in their heads. Most of the time, these imperfections will fix themselves over time, or once they begin to develop. However, sometime...
11 Jul 202328min
Safe Infant Sleep with Sunah Hwang, MD and Aniekan Udoko, MD (S6:E45)
Sudden unexplained infant death, commonly known SUID, SIDS or crib death, affects approximately 3,400 infants each year. Sudden unexpected infant deaths usually occur when an infant is sleeping, and c...
4 Jul 202337min
Fighting Gun Violence with Maya Haasz, MD (S6:E44)
In 2020, firearm injuries were the leading cause of death in Americans 18 years old and younger. There was a total of 3,230 children's deaths, of which 63% were homicide, 30% were suicide, 4% were uni...
27 Jun 202320min
Evolving Trends in Common Pediatric Diseases with Rhae Gamber & Raphe Schwartz (S6:E43)
No day is the same as the last when you work in pediatrics. Not only are viruses and public health outbreaks always changing, so are regulatory and administrative factors that impact pediatric healthc...
20 Jun 202347min
